yes but the word itself is more of a vessel for the primal sentiment.
As opposed to a conditioned one as a reflection of their environment?
I grew up surrounded by a middle to upper class melting pot of races when I was going to school in California, and there was no "we all need to get along" sentiments being rammed down my throat nor were they openly expressing racial differences (but rather ones of wealth). When I was younger, the aspects of it in culture were less obvious from my having a smaller worldview by comparison to teenage and adulthood, and otherwise being in a setting that didn't emphasize it too much, followed by white privilege in places that did, had me otherwise not really focusing on it.
While people are by nature geared to discern differences between their peers, the racism itself tends to be more of a reflection of having grown up without them being an accepted canon of your environment (hence why white people do well globally as the Television race, and why The Left wants to feature more races on television beyond tokenism). It's like if you
raise a wolf and a bear together, they will have much higher odds of understanding and getting along with eachother than if they'd spent the younger portion of their lives without exposure to them at all.
This issue is as easy to trivialize as enacting social change far enough to have it taken in more passively while otherwise demonizing outdated concepts that hold us back. Racism is purely symptomatic of underexposure and otherwise carried further by existing propaganda that attempts to use history as a resource.
Nigger does have a nice ring to it, which helps. I do suppose that I could adore the word Gaijin if I was a dirty rice shitting gook
It's a word that has quite a lot of Xenophobic history (also pretty sure you used the word 'gook' wrong).
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